Azerbaijani Cabbage Rolls دلمه کلم ترش-شیرین آذربایجانی

Stuffed cabbage leaves, has sweet/sour taste due to sugar-vinegar in it.
My mother used to make large amount of cabbage rolls or stuffed grape leaves and store them in the freezer for sometimes later.

Ingredients

300 g ground beef meat

½ large cabbage

½ cup raisins

½ cup yellow split peas ( optional)

1 cup cooked rice

10 tbsp. vinegar

1 large onion

¾ cup sugar

1 tbsp. turmeric

25 g beef stock cube

Oil

Preparation
Bring to boil water in a pot, add 1 tbsp. salt and cabbage. Allow to cook for 10-15 minutes. Once it is cooked, drain and separated cabbage leaves. Cut off hard parts of leaves and set aside.
In a big bowl, grate onion. Then add ground beef, turmeric, sugar, vinegar, pre cooked yellow split peas, raisins and rice to the grated onion, combine together and mix well. Now, put 1 tbsp. of meat mixture in the centre of cabbage leave , roll it up, fold two ends and again roll it . Repeat with all leaves. Cover bottom of pot with some cabbage leaves, arrange stuffed cabbage leaves in the pot.
In a pot with 400-500 ml hot water, add beef stock, and dissolve it and along with 3 tbsp vegetable oil, Pour it top of the stuffed cabbage. Place a plate top of the stuffed cabbages. Cover the pot with lid. Cook it on medium heat for 45 minutes. Serve it hot.